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SAS Cable Length for Norco 4224+M1015
This is a question we get asked reasonably often – what is the right SAS cable length for a Norco 4220/4224 chassis while using IBM M1015 HBAs? 50cm: Doable but puts a great deal of strain on the connectors, particularly on the card end. 60cm: Enough with some slack and no excessive pressure…
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ECC in Intel Network Cards
Intel have released some information about ECC in their networking cards; Some of the older chips like the 82571 – found in cards like the Pro/1000 PT single/dual/quad port NICs – actually do have error correction on the in-band traffic, which is good news. You can see that the latest generation (i.e. i-350, i-540…
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HD6450 – Review for servers/non-3D workstations
The AMD Radeon HD 6450 is a low-end graphics card that’s perfectly suited to basic graphics duties such as you’ll need on a server or workstation board that lacks inbuilt graphics capabilities (on-CPU or a discrete chip). It’s flexible in output – VGA, HDMI and DVI – is more than powerful enough for everyday use…
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Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad review
One of the more common quad-port network cards that pops up online is the Pro/1000 PT. This is a 2006 Intel design – discontinued in 2009 – which generally seems to be priced anywhere from AU$120-160 as a server pull. It uses two Intel 82571 chips, each controlling two gigabit ports, and is PCI-E 1.0…